Majors Quotes - Page 38

• Bobby Fischer started off each game with a great advantage: after the opening he had used less time than his opponent and thus had more time available later on. The major reason why he never had serious time pressure was that his rapid opening play simply left sufficient time for the middlegame.

  Edmar Mednis

  Time, Games, Play

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• The Establishment decided Thatcher's ideas were safer with a strong Blair government than with a weak Major government. We are given all these personalities to choose between to disguise the fact that the policies are the same.

  Tony Benn

  Strong, Government, Ideas

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• Perhaps scientists have been the most international of all professions in their outlook... Every time you scientists make a major invention, we politicians have to invent a new institution to cope with it-and almost invariably, these days, it must be an international institution.

  John F. Kennedy

  Government, Politician, Scientist

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• The Fed was largely responsible for converting what might have been a garden-variety recession, although perhaps a fairly severe one, into a major catastrophe. Instead of using its powers to offset the depression, it presided over a decline in the quantity of money by one-third from 1929 to 1933 ... Far from the depression being a failure of the free-enterprise system, it was a tragic failure of government.

  Milton Friedman

  Garden, Government, Investing

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• Iran is a major threat to the well-being of Europe and America just as much as it is for the state of Israel.

  Ehud Olmert

  Europe And America, Israel, Iran

  "'Israel Should Not Be on the Forefront of a War Against Iran'". Interview with Romesh Ratnesar, content.time.com. April 09, 2006.

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• By now, the corporations that dominate our media, like alcoholic fat cats, treat this situation as theirs by right... Their concept of a diversity of views is the full range of politics and social values from center to far right. The American audience, having been exposed to a narrowing range of ideas over the decades, often assumes that what they see and hear in the major media is all there is. It is no way to maintain a lively marketplace of ideas, which is to say it is no way to maintain a democracy.

  Ben Bagdikian

  Cat, Social Values, Views

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• The major media companies are significantly reducing their financial commitment to the motion picture sector.

  Peter Bart

  Commitment, Media, Financial

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• Bambi can't act. Bambi had major attitude.

  Treat Williams

  Attitude

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• It had more layers than an onion. These writers meant business. There was a level for everybody. Your major could be celestial mechanics, and there'd be celestial-mechanics jokes.

  Billy West

  Business, Onions, Levels

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. June 14, 2005.

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• There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we don't.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Education, Country, Struggle

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• Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Philosophical, Writing, Humor

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• There has not yet been a major ground offensive battle... There are, we know, negotiations going on between the opposition forces and the Taliban leadership for surrender.

  Peter Pace

  Leadership, Battle, Offensive

  "September 11, 2001 : Attack on America". DoD News Briefing - Secretary Rumsfeld and Gen. Pace, avalon.law.yale.edu. November 30, 2001.

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• Everybody knows things are not the same. The people running the TV end of a major vertically integrated company know how much money a successful show can make.

  Dick Wolf

  Running, Money, Successful

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• If we have major geographic areas within our continent that have a tremendous lack of economic opportunity, we found that that is going to produce instability economic, political and social.

  William Weld

  Opportunity, Political, Economic

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• I was a Political Science major.

  Harry Shearer

  Science, Political, Political Science

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. February 10, 2000.

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• We don't have a major problem right now in our country, and life is normal. Things like unemployment, which the youth are suffering from, and the rate of inflation - these are chronic conditions and we have to solve them.

  Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

  Country, Suffering, Unemployment

  "Iran's ex-president: U.S should show goodwill". Interview with Barbara Slavin, usatoday30.usatoday.com. February 6, 2005.

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• Most people's major life changes don't come from reading an article in the newspaper; they come from reading longer-form essays or thoughtful books, which are much more convincing and detailed.

  Aaron Swartz

  Inspirational, Funny, Life Changing

  "I Hate the News" by Aaron Swartz, www.aaronsw.com. October 20, 2006.

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• When the major studios flourished many years ago, an actor was groomed, developed, and worked frequently at his craft. The studios really took care of their actors.

  James MacArthur

  Years, Actors, Crafts

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• We get on the bandwagon in all sorts of ways - you know minor ways and major ways - like what you've just encountered which isn't censorship exactly, it was something sort of uglier in a way.

  Kathy Acker

  Way, Censorship, Bandwagon

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• For the first time in history all the major countries in the world are pushing together to reach this goal... building something in space that is really for all humankind.

  Umberto Guidoni

  Country, Stars, Space

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• We English majors...need to promote public libraries as a tool in the war against terror. How many readers of Edith Wharton have engaged in terroristic acts? I challenge you to name one...Do we need to wait until our cities lie in smoking ruins before we wake up to the fact that a first-class public library is a vital link in national defense?

  Garrison Keillor

  War, Lying, Book

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• One of the major ingredients for professional success in science is luck. Without this, forget it.

  Leon M. Lederman

  Luck, Ingredients, Physics

  Leon M. Lederman, Dick Teresi (1993). “The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question?”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• That's a good question. I think there should be many other women CEO s. It feels natural to be a CEO of WellPoint, and part of the reason may be that women may be drawn to healthcare as a profession. Women make 70 percent of all healthcare decisions. Women are currently available-ready, willing, and able-to be CEOs of major Fortune 50 or 500 companies. And I expect them to emerge as such over the days, weeks, and months ahead.

  Angela Braly

  Women, Thinking, Decision

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• It's a major part of world history that men are trying to kill each other. It's just one slaughter after the other. We talk about it, but no one's really listening.

  Fred Ward

  Men, Talking, Listening

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• This record has a lot of influences that I'd love to cover, like Marvin Gaye and Earth, Wind and Fire. Maybe I'll do some covers of my major influences during my live show.

  Jon Secada

  Fire, Wind, Records

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